…plant from which we gave cuttings to Tregrehan a fortnight ago. Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Lead valley repairs above the ladies loos. repairs Secondary flowering…

…Magnolia salicifolia ‘Rosea’ Magnolia salicifolia ‘Rosea’ Another fine dry day. Good heavens two in a row! 2017 – CHW Off to the Valley Gardens and the rhododendron species collection. Rhododendron…

…is a new plant in the Burncoose catalogue this year. Quite a tall growing species with huge racemes of lily-of-the-valley buds and (perhaps) flowers. A very good deutzia which I…

…The garden is in a deep wooded valley near the village of Shorwell. Salvia darcyi collected by their friend and Garden Society member, John D’Arcy, and named after him. Salvia…

…the keepers. The first fall of birds in these nights of full moon. Some frost today in the valley. 2017 – CHW Hoheria populnea ‘Alba Variegata’ in full flower but…

…which takes in some of Buckham shoot. view south A chalk quarry in the valley below. Fairly hideous but not at all visible. This is said to be the place…

…customary pilgrimage to Will Caws’ secret 40 acres of chalk downland at the base of a steep valley where normally there are several species of orchid as I have seen…

…well in her late 80s. Edith and Des Piper became farm tenants at Burncoose in 1952 and Edith still lives at Gilly farm in the valley opposite the nursery which…

…Purple Breeze Purple Eye Purple Star Rose Marie Rominas Pink Sybille dawsoniana Valley Splendour stellata Wisley Stardust R&G Celtis sinensisPavia Euonymus americanusAvaxa 1 Acer macrophyllum 1 Berberis jamesiana 1 Berberis…

…better than yesterday’s solid rain until lunchtime but now mild again. In fact we have had a bit of a frost again but only at the bottom of the valley.Today…